really excited. thedailybeast. thank you very much, tina brown. still ahead on morning joe, reverend sharpton will be here. senator bernie sanders of vermont. we love socialists. and senator claire mccaskill. all right. she and i have something to discuss. yeah, you do. but first, willie, what do you have coming up next? well, guys, remember that iphone prototype a guy left at a bar in california? somebody picked it up and sold it to a tech website. you well, now that tech website is feeling the wrath of apple. that story when we come back. smart.you re staying at this resort for free? how?
to go forward. the lawsuit covers more than 1 mill employees. it accuses walmart of discriminating in the way of pays and promotes female work perps t ers. a big announcement from ford motor company today. the automaker posted first quarter earnings of more than $2 billion. that is a big difference from the same time last year when ford lost more than $1 billion. you might recall ford did not take any of that government bailout money. ford also reported a profit of more than $1 billion for its north american operations. sales overall rose 15% to $28 billion. new drama today in the saga of apple s secret iphone prototype that ended up lost in a bar. now there s been a police raid involving hard drive digital cameras, cell phones and an american express bill. we ll tell you what this is about. a new warning from mexico for its citizens who might want to travel to arizona. details next. new purefitness.
one quick story for you. remember the one we gave you about the apple prototype of the iphone left in a bar apparently by an apple employee? a couple weeks ago picked up by somebody who found it and sold it to gizmodo.com, this tech website. gizmodo now has run afoul of the law, apparently. we don t know if steve jobs is behind this or not. gizmodo gave the phone back to apple. everything s good there. but a task force, a computer task force, basically kicked in the door from the editor and blogger jason chen. that s the guy right there. because he bought stolen property for $5,000. oh, come on. yeah. they re serving they seized his computer, digital camera, the cell phone, a bunch of other stuff from the guy because he dared cross steve jobs and apple. i knew what it was about. i did, too. you know, apple tv so i m not going to complain. no, never. one other thing, the hollywood sign was going to come down. did you know that story?
in the west. crews are scouring the waters off the coast of louisiana where an explosion at an oil rig left several workers injured and several more unaccounted for. 126 people were working on the platform when the blast happened last night. so far no, deaths reported. the fight over immigration hits a fever pitch in arizona. activists are protesting a bill that would impose some of the toughest immigration laws in the nation by giving local police to stop anyone they think may be here illegally. the house and senate both passed the measure and the governor has four days to sign it or veto it. a big sigh of relief for apple. the company got its iphone prototype back after it was reportedly left behind in a california bar. the folks at the tech blog diz mo doe which paid $5,000 now say they returned the phone to apple on monday. all is right with the world again. did you enjoy gizmodo soup yesterday. we don t get to try it. today, a big blow to the
you do see, they wrapped themselves up in the american flag, as defenders of the american revolution, true defenders of the american revolution. the problem with with that is it posits others as lesser patriots. and i do this that in this time, everyone thinks they re fighting for freedom, but we do need to take a deep breath and take a look with a sense of calm, the rise and the return of the paranoid style of american politics which only has the impact of dividing us. of increasing, kind of pumping up hate and fear. conspiracy entrepreneurs trying to make money off these people. and it all contributes to what s an increasingly toxic political environment, and we should know better now. we should learn from this. john avalon, appreciate your time, thanks very much. coming up next tonight, did goldman sachs rip off investors so that a hedge fund billionaire could get even richer? the latest on the lawsuit that says so. the billionaire and the larger effort to regulate wall street.